Celtic Manor Resort

Celtic Manor Resort Profile

The Celtic Manor Resort is a hotel and resort in the city of Newport. It was the venue of the 2010 Ryder Cup – the first time the cup has been played in Wales.

The resort consists of a golf and country club and a hotel. The hotel is located on the south-facing side of Christchurch Hill in urban East Newport. The golf courses themselves extend over the ridge and down the north-facing side of the hill into the rural vale of Usk, characterised by its rolling countryside. The resort developed around a Victorian country house which had served as a maternity hospital for much of the 20th century and was opened as a seventeen bedroom hotel in 1982. The first golf course was opened in 1995 and the golf facilities have been expanded several times. The hotel has developed into a 400 bedroom spa and conference centre. It is owned by Sir Terry Matthews, who was born there, in the original building which has a separate identity and is called the ‘manor hotel’.

As of 2006 the resort had three golf courses:

* Wentwood Hills (opened 1999): The regular venue for the Celtic Manor Wales Open, on the European Tour.
* Roman Road (opened 1994): Another championship course which will host the Wales Open during expansion work to reconfigure Wentwood Hills for the Ryder Cup.
* Coldra Woods Academy Course (opened 1996): A par 59 practice and teaching course.

Wentwood Hills is being remodelled for the Ryder Cup, making the new version effectively the first course to be purpose built for the tournament. The new course will comprise nine of the existing holes and nine new ones. The layout is intended to allow large galleries to conveniently follow the small number of concurrent matches which are played during the Ryder Cup. The course will have only one fairway crossing, and there will be open views of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth holes, which will be situated in an amphitheatre. The spectator capacity will be 50,000.

The Celtic Manor Resort is conveniently located on the M4 (J24), just 90 minutes from London Heathrow, 40 minutes from Bristol and Cardiff-Wales International Airport and 5 minutes from the Severn Bridge. We are located close to inter city rail services at Newport, with direct trains from Cardiff, London Paddington, and Birmingham.

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